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Bucephalus (by  sĕ`fələs), favorite horse of Alexander the Great. There are legends of his speed and the wondrous deeds that Alexander performed while riding him. He died in 326 B.C. after the battle on the Hydaspes River. The city Bucephala was founded there by Alexander in his honor.Bucephalus wild steed, broken by Alexander to be his mount. [Gk. Hist.: Leach, 167] See : Horse |
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He next proceeded to inspect his hack, which, with more quartos than a real and more blemishes than the steed of Gonela, that "tantum pellis et ossa fuit," surpassed in his eyes the Bucephalus of Alexander or the Babieca of the Cid. For them stage-coaches will have become romances--a team of four bays as fabulous as Bucephalus or Black Bess. Intact, my dear friend; besides the harness of your Bucephalus and mine. |
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